{"id":40475,"date":"2019-11-03T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T13:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40475"},"modified":"2019-11-03T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:10:54","slug":"d-n-j-us-cant-be-sued-under-bivens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40475","title":{"rendered":"D.N.J.: US can&#8217;t be sued under <em>Bivens<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff can\u2019t bring a Fourth Amendment Bivens claim against the United States because of sovereign immunity. There is always FTCA, but it has prerequisites. Leave to amend granted. Whitaker v. United States, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 188071 (D. N.J. Oct. 30, 2019). Likewise, a U.S. District Court can&#8217;t be sued under Bivens. Scoyni v. United States Dist. Court of Idaho 9th Circuit, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 190257 (D. Idaho Oct. 29, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Police were looking for an iPhone tracked by the owner to his address. Defendant consented to their entry to look for the phone. They called the phone hoping to hear it, and they had flashlights looking around for it when they saw drugs. Defendant\u2019s consent as shown by the body camera video was voluntary, and seeing drugs was plain view. United States v. Thorne, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 188058 (E.D. N.C. Oct. 30, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff can\u2019t bring a Fourth Amendment Bivens claim against the United States because of sovereign immunity. There is always FTCA, but it has prerequisites. Leave to amend granted. Whitaker v. United States, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 188071 (D. N.J. Oct. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,24,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-consent","category-plain-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40507,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40475\/revisions\/40507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}